Just so stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, sentence 19
He waddled straight into the water and blew bubbles through his nose, leaving his skin on the beach.
Who acts: wave · What happens: waddle, blow, leave · To what, where: water, bubbles, nose, skin, beach
This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waddled | nsubj |
| 2 | waddled | waddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 waddled | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waddled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blew | cc |
| 8 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waddled | conj |
| 9 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blew | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 nose | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nose | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leaving | punct |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 blew | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 beach | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beach | det |
| 19 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waddle | past | wave | the water | straight property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | blow | past | wave not said here | bubbles | wave's nose | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | wave not said here | wave's skin | the beach | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent skin=Theme on beach=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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